SECTOR VIEW . Biotech , Small Caps , US Treasuries and the US Dollar . Let’s comment on a couple market sectors and asset classes today. First, two stock market sectors which may prove profitable. Ha, you scoff! Profitable? In a bear market? Before you laugh, at least read my reasoning. 1. BIOTECH...

TECHNICAL VIEW . Summer R ally Ahead Or Not? Now is the time for all good men and women to watch the key stock market indices very closely! We have a possible bottom in place (if it is a bottom I have to believe it’s a temporary one). Yep, after basically falling out of bed for two months, from...

PORTFOLIO STRATEGY This year’s mid-March to mid-May bear market rally was the first rally versus the new primary bear market downtrend. Usually the first rally is the best rally (just like the first loss is the best loss) because many investors believe the bull market still lives and thus it’s...

GOLD VIEW . It’s Time to Buy Back into GOLD ! I must say the gold chart looks ripe for a rally and the background economics are screaming rising inflation here in the US and all around the globe, so I would recommend buying back into gold. Gold pulled back from its big Round Number of $1000 in...

UPDATE ON THE STOCK MARKET . Tuesday, April 29th, 2008: 6:30 a.m. The stock market has some uncertainty – there’s that awful word again – about tomorrow’s Federal Reserve 2:15 p.m. interest rate policy announcement. For the first time in a very long time, we’re not quite sure what the Fed is going to...

SCHWARTZ BUY RECOMMENDATION this morning. Yes, with China (domestically) down -50% off its peak and the related Chinese region indices down slightly less but now showing some signs of a bottom and turn around, I’d suggest that its time to put some sidelined money back to work in ASIA (during this beginning...

UPDATE ON THE STOCK MARKET . The bulls are now on CNBC saying it’s too late to sell. I beg to differ since I can’t figure out why it’s too late to sell. Maybe because some portfolios are already down big, -15% or more. But that still doesn’t mean they can’t drop much more. Just think back to the dot...

TECHNICAL VIEW . Investor’s Business Daily (IBD) has put the bull back in the box, yesterday the S&P Mid Cap index became the first index to post a higher high, after posting a higher low, and stocks stopped going down five weeks ago. Plus, as I wrote above, we’re on the verge of the bullish 4-Day...

UPDATE ON THE STOCK MARKET . Wednesday, February 27th, 2008 We’re back to three days up in row , hoping today proves to be another up day, the fourth in a sequence, triggering Trader Vic’s bullish 4-Day Rule . In spite of more bad economic data yesterday morning, like twice the expected producer price...

UPDATE ON THE STOCK MARKET . Tuesday, February 26th, 2008: Yesterday stocks were buoyed by further hopeful news about saving the vital AAA rating of the two big bond insurers, MBIA and Ambac . A report indicating such late Friday afternoon first helped reverse the stock market’s dismal downtrend towards...

Friday, February 22nd, 2008: UPDATE ON THE STOCK MARKET . Wednesday stocks rose, yesterday they fell, giving back all of Wednesday’s gains and a bit more. Call it backing and filling as the stock market continues to calm down a little. Still the background economic news, which ultimately drives stock...

The Much Needed, Wanted, Defining RETEST is Now Underway. If investors are honest, no one wants or likes a V bottom. V bottoms are just too quick, come with no base building and are prone to just be bouncing-up-and-off temporary bottoms . They usually occur after a bout of high volume, capitulation selling...